The dilemma of choice: introduction to a stoma assessment tool.

Providing a rationale for product solutions is becoming increasingly common as commissioners and additional stakeholders investigate the cost and practices of stoma care. In this paper, Nick Buckle introduces a stoma assessment tool that could provide expert health-care professionals with a framewor...

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Published in:Gastrointestinal Nursing Vol. 11; no. 4; pp. 26 - 33
Main Author: Buckle, Nick
Format: forms tables/charts Journal Article
Published: Mark Allen Holdings Limited May2013
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost
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Summary:Providing a rationale for product solutions is becoming increasingly common as commissioners and additional stakeholders investigate the cost and practices of stoma care. In this paper, Nick Buckle introduces a stoma assessment tool that could provide expert health-care professionals with a framework to support clinical assessments and validate their product selection in a way that can be easily communicated to non-stomal experts, be they health-care professionals, commissioners or the patients themselves. The tool is designed for use in everyday practice and captures the experiential knowledge of the expert stoma care nurse in a concise and easy-to-interpret format.